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ROGER HOBBIE Page 42 Page 44 1 that speaks for itself? 2 MR. BARTELS: It does speak for itselfand I 3 will move on. Let me lake a break. 4 (A short recess was held.) 5 Q Mr. Hobbie, I will show you again and come over next 6 to you Hobbie Exhibit 3 which is titled TCM National Accounts 7 Monthly Report, September 1985. Is that correct? 8 A Yes. 9 Q It is written out to a J.I. Warren. Do you know who 10 J.I. Warren was? 11 A Yes. 12 Q Who was he? 13 A He was at the time division manager for Eaton truck 14 components marketing. 15 Q It's from J.J. Collins? 16 A He was the national account sales manager. 17 Q And your name appears under the subsection, TCM/NAHQ 18 stafT? 19 A North American headquarters staff. 20 Q At the time of this report, what was your position 21 with Eaton, September of 1985? 22 A 1 was general service manager. 23 Q This is, again, you have already testified this is a 2 4 national accounts monthly report. One of the things discussed 25 in the report is under pending orders, it says see attached. 1 number is BAT-0400. There are designations for the account 2 name Hertz Penske? 3 A Correct 4 Q Can you describe what is reflected on this report 5 regarding Hertz Penske. 6 A It would be a pending order for new trucks. The 7 estimate was a thousand units going to GMC, 300 going to IHC, 8 another 300 to IHC, and another 300 potential to IHC for a 9 total of 1900 trucks and basically listing the components that 10 were being specified as the engines. These are medium duty 11 trucks with the Eaton five-speed manual transmission. 12 Q You were referring to GMC? 13 A Right, to GMC. Then it had a 17,500 pound drive 14 axle; brakes, other, probably these were hydraulic brake 15 vehicles which we didn't supply those brakes for that 16 particular size vehicle. 17 Q What about the other Hertz Penske designations 18 showing the purchases from IHC7 Do you know what IHC is 19 referring to? 20 A International Harvester Corporation. 21 Q Why don't you go through each one. 22 A The next one was for 300 units, engine. 23 Q It says eight class? 24 A Yes, probably a Cummings. I'm guessing at that. It 25 sounds like a Cummings designation. Eaton Fuller Page 43 Page 45 1 Is that correct? 2 A Yes, sir. 3 Q What is a pending order? 4 A It would be where the national account sales 5 representative, one ofhis assigned fleet accounts would have 6 basically said they were going to order X amount oftrucks 7 from X manufacturer and basically the representatives would B report that back so it would give an alert to the Eaton 9 organization that these new orders were coming in. 10 Q Now, attached to this report appears to be a 11 computer-generated list Is that correct? 12 A Yes. 13 Q And do you know how to read that particular 14 document? 15 A Used to. 16 Q I have a question about a particular page. 17 A Yes, fleet name is over here on the left with 18 account number which is our computerized account number. Then 19 it designated the OEMs that were under consideration or were 2 0 bidding on the order; the engine that was going to be 21 specified; the transmission that was going to be specified; 2 2 the rear axle and the brake that was going to be specified. 23 Q You are familiar with those computer printouts? 24 A Yes. 25 Q l will go to the last page. The Eaton Bates stamp 1 transmission, nine speed, direct transmission; Rockwell SQ 2 1 OOP in a 40,000 pound tandem and it shows either Eaton or 3 Rockwell brakes. I guess they probably were not specific at 4 that time as to which brake they were going to specify. It 5 was going to be left up to the final order. 6 Q Okay. 7 A Next one, another 300 IHCs, Cummings L-10 200 8 horsepower, Eaton Fuller, nine-speed transmission, rear axle, 9 this is a single drive axle, not a tandem, and it is an 10 International RA-57 which is a 23,000 pound axle or a Rockwell 11 R-l 70 which is another 23,000 pound. 12 And basically on the International, it looked 13 like they were potentially specing the Eaton brake on that 14 with the RA-57 International axle and then the Rockwell brake 15 on the Rockwell drive axle. 16 Then the next group, another 300 IHCs. DT-466 17 is an International diesel engine, it is a medium duty engine. 18 CM552A is a Spicer, Dana Spicer transmission, five-speed. 19 Rear axle, G-175, that was a Dana IH axle, 1 believe, at that 2 0 time. And then brakes, probably neither Eaton or Rockwell 21 would have made the brakes for that. It probably would have 2 2 been hydraulic brakes. 23 Q Thank you. With respect to Hobbie Exhibit 2 we 2 4 previously discussed briefly, can you describe for us what is 2 5 being discussed in regard to that interoffice correspondence? 12 (Pages 42 to 45) (800) MERRILL LEGAL SOLUTIONS 325-3376 www.MerrillCorp.com Scfe6bcd-afe7-469e-b187-b081 ecda30a3